Entries tagged with “Best BlackBerry Storm Apps” from WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

The sun is shinning, the kids are out of school. If you are lucky enough to have a job and go on vacation with your BlackBerry Storm here are some fun and useful apps for your BlackBerry Storm for summer fun.

• bWatchDoggy - if you leave your BlackBerry Storm on the chez lounge while you are in the pool or making maragaritas, first install and then turn on bWatch Doggy. Once this app is activated if some on picks up your BlackBerry Storm, A loud dog-barking sound is played when the device is moved a barking dog sound is played. To stop the barking, swipe your finger on the screen to the right. The app description states, "This will surely scare the person away who touches your BlackBerry Try it, it's fun and free!

• StormTorch: this handy free app brings clean white light and turns the BlackBerry Storm into a flashlight. StormTorch will turn on your screen as well as the led light very brightly.

• Shortcovers eBook Reader -  this cloud-based reader app gives you access to the Shortcovers service with an eBook store that offers some free eBooks. The Shortcovers service allows readers to read thousands of bestselling books, chapters, news and magazine articles, short stories, blog posts and more, online and on your BlackBerry. Members  can bookmark and save books, chapters, articles and stories, plus build a digital library and rate, comment and share favorite reads with your friends and family.  (Available for Storm, Bold, Curve, 8000 Series Blackberry devices.)

• Audible - users can shop, sample, download, and playback audio from Audible's catalog of over 60,000 titles, right on a BlackBerry.  When you download the BlackBerry apps for a limite time, you get a  free download of Hot, Flat, and Crowded," the best seller by author and syndicated columnist Thomas Friedman.

A Portio Research  report  suggests that SMS will continue to be the cash cow of mobile data revenues for some time to come. Traffic and revenues continue to keep growing through the economic downturn.

The entire mobile messaging industry worth USD 130 billion in 2008 is predicted to be worth USD 224 billion by 2013, 60 percent of non-voice service revenues.

The report, 'Mobile Messaging Futures 2008 - 2013' ventures that there is nothing likely to stop continued growth of mobile messaging in the short term, driven by a cocktail of ubiquitous SMS, media rich MMS, enterprise based mobile email and youth conscious mobile IM.

SMS remains 'King' because there is no cheap, easy to use alternative that will work with all phones and across all networks.  In the US market, where SMS was a comparative slow starter, use per subscriber per month is now almost double the European average. In China average users send over 100 messages each month whereas the Filipinos continue to be the leading exponents with 755 messages each month.